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boxingcardmanIn Fred Lieb's "Baseball As I Have Known It" (1977). A fantastic book, BTW,as Lieb was the long-time head of the BWAA and on the Old Timers committee at the HOF and basically knew and saw everyone and everything baseball from the teens to the 60s. His chapter on Hal Chase is called "Hal Chase: He Had A Corkscrew Brain" and basically recites firsthand how Chase was known as a cheat for years but not finally run out of baseball until a Boston gambler came forward and produced a payoff check. Chase also cheated at cards with his teammates and had three managers condemn him for throwing games (Frank Chance, George Stallings and Christy Mathewson).
The book also has a really interesting chapter on Carl Mays. Lieb says that the Old Timers committee considered him regularly for HOF enshrinement but did not vote him in because he was widely believed to have thrown games in the 1921 series. Miller Huggins hated him so much that he told Lieb there were only two men in baseball he'd kick if they were down and out: Mays and Joe Bush (another one who tanked games).